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Being a desktop application is a pretty serious barrier to usability for the average person. So is using Bitcoin, to be honest.


You're right. We're about to launch a mobile app and working on getting it working on browser as well.

Bitcoin is a barrier but our goal is to eventually be currency agnostic. It does enable us to do escrow properly though with 2-of-3 multisig, and it also ensures that people control their own money.


Bitcoin is an accessibility barrier, but OpenBazaar is also an example of the kind of models bitcoin reduces the hurdles for.


it is certainly a barrier, but if sellers recognize that sales over bitcoin has lower costs (cost of fraud) - certain items should show up on these marketplaces and people knowing about that tech will be really happy to get bargains... or so it should work :)




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